to kludge

Examples

• All

• Best not kludge up the new entity's mind with such clutter.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Then they have to get to somebody or kludge up some records that prove it was all some kind of dummies being tested or some kind of experimental plane the government didn't want to let on about.

  Fiction book (1999)

• Windows 8 is not exactly what I'd call a hybrid OS; it's more like a tablet OS with PC functions kludged on in order to maintain some kind of normality about it.

  Blog text (8)

• When the printer broke down, we had to kludge a temporary fix using duct tape and spare parts.

• The software engineers had to kludge a workaround to make the system functional again.

Synonyms

C

to cobble

vsto kludge

• Informal

21 5.3

To put things together quickly and roughly using what is available

is a clumsy temporary fix rather than a neat lasting solution

S

to slap together

vsto kludge

• Informal

3 6.0

Make something quickly without caring about details

is a clumsy quick repair often serving only as a temporary measure

K

to knock together

vsto kludge

• UK

1 4.9

Make something quickly that will not last long

is a clumsy short term solution rather than a finished version

F

to fudge together

vsto kludge

• Informal

7.4

Make something quickly and carelessly using what you have

is a clumsy quick fix intended to work temporarily not permanently

B

to bodge

vsto kludge

• UK

9.9

Do a job badly so it does not work

is a clumsy temporary fix rather than merely poor workmanship

How Makeshift

jury-rigged

• Informal

2 7.6

to bodge

• UK

9.9

to kludge

• Jargon

9.3

to cobble together

• Informal

16 5.2

Surface Forms

Etymology